Will.I.Am tapped friends and fellow musicians such as Nicole Scherzinger, Kate Walsh, John Legend, Scarlett Johansson, Common, Nick Cannon and many more to assist him in the song which is titled “The Yes We Can Song”. They recorded it on January 30 and 31 in a Los Angeles studio and Will.I.Am wrote on his website on how he got the inspiration.

“It made me think of Martin Luther King, Kennedy and Lincoln, and all the others that have fought for what we have today,” he explained on the significance of Obama’s speech. “It made me reflect on the freedoms I have, going to school where I went to school, and the people that came before Obama like Martin Luther King, presidents like Abraham Lincoln that paved the way for me to be sitting here on ABCNews and making a song from Obama’s speech.”

A music video was shot under the direction of Jesse Dylan and contains excerpts from Obama’s speech.

The video is not part of the Obama campaign, just something done for him by people who are inspired by him and admire him. 

Once again, I see no Africans in Hollywood represented here.  What is really going on?